Improvement in cigarette-packages



H. MADDOCK. CIGARETTE-PACKAGE.

Patented Oct.3, 1876.

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AJEIEPS, Pnmmumocnwnm, WASHINGTON a C UNITED STATES HENRY MADDOOK, or ssooxmm, saw YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARETTE-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182.765, dated October 3, 1876; application filed September 9, 1876.

1'0 all when it com Be it known that 1, Emmy Mannoox, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Cigarette-Packages, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the putting up of packages of cigarettes for the trade, with matches in the same package, in a convenient manner for smokers, and also to a particular package or box. It consists in a package of cigarettes, as an article of sale, containing a few matches for the convenience of the smoker or person buying the package. Also in a box, as hereinafter described and claims The object of my invention is to furnish to the consumer cigarettes in a package, containing also a few matches, so that the smoker can always have convenient the means for lighting and relighting his cigarettes, in a compact and neat form, in one and the same bundle with the cigarettes. The form of the packages or bundles is, of course, immaterial, as they could be made in many different styles, exhibiting more or less ingenuity. It is also immaterial of what the box-covering, or envelope, containing cigarettes and matches, is composed, or whether the matches are divided from the cigarettes in the package; but I generally prefer to so arrange the matches that they shall not come in contact with the cigaretics, although in the same package.

The drawing, which forms part of this specillcatiomczhibits a convenient and cheap cigar ette-box, which may be made of paper or any other suitable material, and which 1 furnish to the trade already packed with the cigarettes and matches, as represented.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view. Fig. 4 is a view of the removable partition of the box or package.

0 represents the body of a box or package made of paper or any other suitable material, and cut out at the upper edge in front toshow the cigarettes and matches in it, and make them easy of access. a a. are upper side flaps, which can beturued down either before the large flap or cover b, and over the cigarettes, or after, and upon it, as may be desired. The cover and flaps may be secured so as to show the cigarettes and matches, as represented in Fig. 2, or otherwise. A roughened surface is provided at d, upon which the matches or lighters can be struck to light the cigarettes. A removable partition, 9 h, is placed in the box 0, near the front, and serves to divide the box and the matches f from the cigarettes c, and at the same time support the matches at a position easy of access. The matches f are placed in a row in front of the partition, and the cigarettes in one or more rows in the rear of the partition, so that the cigarettes hold the partitions toward the front in place.

I am aware that cigar-cases, made of tin or leather, and the like, having apartments as pocket-books have, are not new, and I do not claim such-these are sold to the trade empty and for many uses, and are expensive.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A package of cigarettes, prepared for sale with matches inclosed in the same euvelope, and adapted for carriage in the pocket, as set forth.

2. The box 0, having the cover b, side flaps a a, and removable partition 9 h, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY MADDOGK.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. WmTsEY, EDWARD HOLLY. 

